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    <title>biomechanics of back pain</title>
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    <namePart>Adams, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1953-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2013</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2013</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>The vertebral column and adjacent structures -- Muscles and fascia of the lumbar spine -- Nerves and blood supply to the lumbar spine -- Back pain -- Epidemiology of back trouble -- Biology of spinal tissues -- Growth and ageing of the spine -- Forces acting on the thoracolumbar spine -- Mechanical function of the thoracolumbar spine -- Mechanical damage to the thoracolumbar spine -- Cervical spine biomechanics -- Posture, creep and "functional pathology" -- Sensorimotor control -- Spinal degeneration -- Preventing back pain -- Conservative management of back pain -- Biomechanics rationale for spinal surgery -- Surgery for disc prolapse, spinal stenosis and back pain -- Medico-legal considerations.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Bogduk Nikolai, Michael A. Adams ... [et al.].</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-325) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Backache</topic>
    <topic>School of Health Sciences</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <topic>Back Pain</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Biomechanics</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
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